Word: dead
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Jerzy Urban, the government's press spokesman, gave a few new details of the Popieluszko autopsy report last week. He said that the priest died from strangulation rather than from any injuries he sustained in a beating and was dead when his body was tossed into a reservoir 90 miles northwest of Warsaw. Earlier reports had said that Popieluszko might still have been alive when he was thrown into the water. Urban also confirmed that the four police officers arrested in the case will go on trial soon and that the proceedings will be open to the foreign press...
...encounters a person can have," confesses Sculptor George Segal. For nearly three decades, the master of plaster has recorded those seismic occasions, and in George Segal (Rizzoli; 379 pages; $65), Art Historians Sam Hunter and Don Hawthorne have gathered the best of them, from '50s paintings like Dead Chicken to his life-size casts of individuals trapped in time. Throughout his long career, the artist has trumpeted his message of alienation...
...history is any indication, a good time at the rink means throwing huge dead fish on the ice, tying squabbling chickens to the Harvard net and jeering the visitors...
...great promise in Pinter, but also an added challenge. Unlike the stock dramas and comedies that annually fail to challenge House and Loeb audiences. Betrayal offers and requires something more from its Harvard interpreters, Failing that, Pinter becomes little more than a few banalities and a lot of dead space...
...ANTI-ABORTION forces have a lot to smile about. Now that their best ally has been returned to the White House, they need only wait for two of those nasty old liberal Supreme Court justices to drop dead, and the evil Roe v. Wade abortion decision of 1973 will finally be vanquished...